The Last Piece

International Quilt Market, Day 1!

Up, up and away! Quilt Market is well and truly underway and today is the first day the market floor is open for business. In the mean time though we spent all day on Thursday setting up my booth! 

When you have to set a booth up from the other side of the world, it's best to have your handy-dandy hubby there to put together the Ikea flat packs :)

The headers for St Ives are all ready for showing....

And my Market Treasure Hunt is ready for action. If you are at Market, make sure and enter to win on of 5 prizes, each containing a whole set of 32 Fat Quarters of St Ives, AND a copy of Quilting: From Little Things! To enter you need to pick up a form from my booth and then find the butterflies on the Brewers, Krause and Lecien stands and write down the number. Drop the form back to my booth to enter. 

Hope you all have a great day - I know I will! Pics from schoolhouse to follow, meantime, here's the booth.

Make sure and swing by to say hi if you're here and see my new fabric, book, patterns, templates and a BRAND new pattern booklet of sewing notions.

See you at the show.

Aurifil Booth Sock Hop!

Exciting things are afoot around here! The last bags are being packed for Market and I'm on the plane in the morning - woot woot!! Look out for a HUGE info packed blog tomorrow from the Qantast lounge letting you know everything I'm up to, as well as how you could win an AWESOME prize!

And here's how to win some OTHER awesome prizes! My friends at Aurufil have asked me to be part of their booth hop at Market. Here's how it goes:

Join us for the  ”Kick up your Heels at the Quilt Market Sock Hop”

What: A Booth hop at Fall Market is a fun way to meet 20 designers that use and love Aurifil thread. PLUS we have prizes!

When: All 3 days of Market, ending at 3pm Monday when the winners names are picked

How: Pick up a Hop Card at the Aurifil and Designer booths – One per Store .
Visit all the booths listed and have the Fabulous designer initial their square

When your card is filled, take it to the Aurifil Booth and put it into the Sock Hop Box

Prizes: A super Grand prize of an Aurifil Suitcase of  216 spools… yum yum!
Plus all our marvelous designers are donating a prize…
see prizes in Aurifil USA, Inc. Booth/s 1356, 58, 1457, 59

List of the booths involved

Jillily Studio  – Booth/s 139
http://jillilystudio.blogspot.com/
StudioKat Designs  – Booth/s 201
www.studiokatdesigns.com
The Noble Wife – Booth/s 237
http://www.thenoblewife.com/
Blackbird Designs – Booth/s 369
http://blackbird-designs.blogspot.com/
Laundry Basket Quilts – Booth/s 564
http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/
Me and My Sister Designs – Booth/s 569
http://www.meandmysisterdesigns.com/
Quiltmania – Booth/s 644
http://quiltmania.com/
Lunch Box Quilts  – Booth/s 650, 52
http://www.lunchboxquilts.com/
The Teacher’s Pet – Booth/s 749
www.the-teachers-pet.com
Sarah Fielke – Booth/s 948
http://www.thelastpiece.net/
Chicago School of Fusing – Booth/s 1015
http://www.friestyle.com/
Splinters & Threads– Booth/s 1065
http://www.splintersandthreads.com
Eazy Peazy Quilts  – Booth/s 1215
http://eazypeazyquilts.com/
Gudrun Erla  – Booth/s 1425
http://www.gequiltdesigns.com/
Bigfork Bay Cotton, LLC  – Booth/s 1544, 46
http://www.bigforkbaycottonco.com/
Nancy Rink Designs  – Booth/s 1706
http://www.nancyrinkdesigns.com
Michell Marketing – Booth/s 1728, 30, 32
http://www.frommarti.com/
Perkins Dry Goods – Booth/s 1906!
http://www.perkinsdrygoods.com/
Crawford Designs  – Booth/s 2024
www.crawforddesigns.net
Outside the Line  – Booth/s 2060
http://www.otldesigns.com/wp/

Aurifil USA, Inc. Booth/s 1356, 58, 1457, 59 
with Sock Hop Box & prizes drawn at 3pm Monday

Be there or be SQUARE! Hurrah for Quilt Market!

 

St Ives Delivery!

I just found out that St Ives will be in stores in November!! Which is three months before I thought!! SQUEEEEEEE!!

If your local rep hasn't shown it to you yet, PLEASE let me know and I will get someone out there to you quick sticks. And if you have seen it and ordered it, please let me know so I can add you to my list of stockists. And kiss you :)

New Dollies Online Quilt

Have you seen the latest Dollies Online quilt? It's called My Ties and was designed by the amazing Mrs Schmenkman herself.

How cute is that! Want to make it? Me too! The PDF pattern is $15, please email me if you would like one and I will send you a PayPal invoice - the webshop is being fixed at the moment. [email protected]

Quilt Uberfest Special Super Surprise Extra Block 17

So my friend Scott over at Blue Nickel Studios has been running a quilt block Uberfest. You can check out his site for all the details, but at one point he was pretty worried he would have some people pull out, so he asked me to design an extra. 

As there wasn't time to get the fabric to me at short notice, Scott has made up the the block I designed!

Since no one DID pull out, now you get an extra super-dooper plus-bonus Uber-block. Download Uberfestpattern17sarahfielke, and may the Quilt be with you.

Quilts, Quilts, Quilts

Wow, I've been innundated with quilt pics from all over the place over the last few weeks. I've been meaning to share and something else always pops up... so finally here they all are together!

Paula made my Colour Me Happy dolly quilt. This quilt is an excercise in colour control, and a fantastic way to work out what's in your stash - what you buy, what you don't buy, and gaps you could fill. The pattern, with a little mini lesson, is available from my webshop.

Therese made this version of my Flutter By quilt. This was in Quilters Companion some time ago, and is about to be released as a new pattern in my pattern range shortly. Therese used Bliss by Bonnie and Camille for her fabric.

Christine has made a wonderful version of Charlotte Sometimes! I love her choice of colours. The pattern for Charlotte Sometimes is in Material Obsession Two.

Alison as been busy quickly and made her very own Night Garden from the new book. She's done such a beautiful job. There are loads of versions of this quilt cropping up all over the place, I love seeing them! Don't forget if you want to try this quilt I have a template set to make the blocks that makes it all much easier.

Gorgeous! My lovely friend Erica has been helping me out getting ready for Houston by making this version of A Sandwich Short of a Picnic from Quilting: from little things, using my new fabric range, St Ives. Hasn't she done a beautiful job?? I just love the combo of that green Alexander Henry background fabric with St Ives, it looks so fresh.

I will be doing kits for this quilt after Market - if you want to get in early and pre-order one, let me know!

If you have made a version of one of my quilts, I would LOVE to see it. Happy Monday....

Blogging in Small Sharp Bursts

Hey peeps in the USA! My book is RELEASED and available for you to buy! Pop on over to Amazon and grab a copy.

PS. If you are a quilt shop wanting to stock my book, please let me know and I will hook you up with the publisher for ordering copies. Then make sure and tell me you ordered so I can add you to my stockists list! Thank you!

 

St Ives, a Flip Book

Want to see the whole story, and the whole range? Kim over at True Up has the scoop. 

My Weekend for My Patch

I had the most lovely weekend! On Friday afternoon we piled the boys and their friend Jillie into the car and went down the south coast to Milton so I could teach for Val at My Patch Fabric. Despite the weather being horrid on Friday, Saturday morning dawned clear and while I headed off for my class, the kids were able to go to the beach all day!

Val had set the hall up so beautifully, everything looked lovely and inviting.

Due to a few students who were ill we ended up a small class, but that was great - everyone got so much done and I was able to make sure they all learned everything they wanted to learn, including some hand quilting at the end.

All the girls in the class were working on different dolly quilts from Quilting: from little things. We had two learning needleturn applique, Asta working on Spring and Jeneene on A Little Silhouette:

Dianne wanted to learn wonky piecing, and she mastered her little log cabins from The Woodpile so quickly that we learned the wonky stars from Dandelions too!

Kerrie powered through her Diamond Chips quilt! As a beginner who has never done triangles before, she did a fantastic job.

After a wonderful day of teaching and lunch and chocolate cake and show and tell, I headed back to the beach with the kids and Damo for a game of rugby. The light was so beautiful on the beach that I took a million pictures.

Charlie and Jillie versus Dad and Oscar - a hotly contested game, with Mum and the dog as commentators.

The score was level until Dad (who played rugby for the State in his day) took off to score the winning try.

As you can see, he was very humble about it.

Everyone was hot, but after the kids saw a fin in the water (debatable as to wether it was a shark or a dolphin), they weren't so keen on going in!

Perhaps a walk on the rocks instead. 

Friends :)

Thanks for inviting me to teach for you Val! I had such a great weekend. And thanks SO much to my friend Sheena for letting us stay in her lovely house at Bawley, it made the weekend just perfect. xx

 

Sullivan's Ruler Winners!

Congratulations to Theresa and April Mae, the winners of the Sullivans Rulers from my blog! To see the full list of winners, please go over and check out Pat's blog, and Theresa and April Mae - you should have received an email from Pat about your prize.

I've been chained to the sewing machine zipping up the quilts for my free pattern for St Ives the last week or so - and now I'm chained to the couch sewing on the bindings. It's OK though, my couch is a nice place to be, and with a cup of tea, a movie and my beautiful Cath Kidston sewing box (courtesy of Katy), who wouldn't want to sit here and stitch?

Speaking of stitching, my class at Cottage Quiltworks have been making great progress... Here's Sandy's 'Burb's quilt, I love all the vintage and Japanese fabrics she's used:

The pattern for The Burb's is in Material Obsession One. 

And here's Lindy's finished Night Garden quilt! Wow this one really pops, I love Lindy's choice of setting fabric.

The pattern for The Night Garden is in Quilting: from little things.

Ok, off to stitch more binding :) Enjoy your Wednesday wherever you are